During the 2003 heatwave in France, about 15,000 people died, but the temperatures affected disproportionately the poor suburbs of Paris.

As Paris residents are slowly melting under an unprecedented heat wave that started earlier in June, French mainstream media could not help but take the opportunity to stigmatize suburban youth again who have tried to cope with the unbearable temperatures by opening neighborhood fire hydrants.

“While this practice is indeed dangerous because of the risks of electrocution and of lack of water in case of a fire, the reactions it has sparked demonstrate hypocrisy and a huge classist disdain,” said Paris Luttes Info in a communique issued Saturday.

In recent days, the French media has multiplied news articles criticizing the waste of water and reminding audiences of the needs of firemen, while avoiding to investigate further the reasons motivating the young residents — the majority of immigrant origins — to take risks and open the fire hydrants as a last resort.

This year it was 100 percent. Every delegation,” organizer Mary Flowers told the media.

An African trade summit organized by the University of Southern California ended up with zero Africans as they were all denied visas to enter the United States just days before the summit despite applying months ahead of time, in what organizers called an act of “discrimination against African nations.”

“The new executive order covers fewer people,” but it “suffers from the same constitutional and statutory defects,” said a lawyer for the state.

On Tuesday, the state of Hawaii said it will ask a federal judge to block U.S. President Donald Trump’s revised Muslim Ban, marking the first official legal challenge of the revised executive order which was released on Monday.

An interview with Hatem Abudayyeh, head of Chicago’s Arab American Action Network, on the rising criminalization of Arab and Muslim life in the US.

In September of 2010, American federal agents in Chicago unjustifiably raided the Jefferson Park residence of Hatem Abudayyeh, Executive Director of Arab American Action Network (AAAN), in a time that federal agents were executing search warrants in residences and offices of several people in Chicago and in Minneapolis. Some of many “Muslim hunts” happening since the 9/11 attacks.

The FBI agents took away a computer, video tapes and a cell phone of the Muslim civil rights leader. “They took everything in my home that had the word Palestinian on it,” Abudayyeh said. The federal investigation was focused on whether Abudayyeh and the others have funded foreign terrorist organizations. Abudayyeh has never been charged

According to the AAAN leader, a son of Palestinians, the FBI then targeted him merely for having a pro-Palestinian view. “This is a massive escalation of the attacks on people that do Palestine support work in this country and anti-war work,” said Abudayyeh at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, three months later as he refused to grant an interview to ABC. “We’re not going to stop speaking out against the war. We’re not going to stop speaking out against U.S. support of Israel’s violations of the Palestinian people.”

In this interview, Hatem Abudayyeh speaks out about President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration that bars citizens of Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for the next 90 days, and refugees from around the world for four months. He says: “Trump and the other racists and white supremacists in his government are extremely dangerous, not only to Arabs and Muslims, but also to immigrants in general, black people, workers, women, and all other marginalized and oppressed communities in the US. I believe that Trump wants to truly ‘make American white again.'”

The original goal was set at US$20,000, but the campaign managed to raise five times that amount in a little over a day.

As Muslim Americans are beseeched by Islamophobic attacks, they also managed to help raise more than US$100,000 to repair vandalized headstones at a Jewish cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri, according to an online fundraising page, amid attacks and threats against Jewish institutions.

Tareck El Aissami had his U.S. assets frozen by the Treasury last week. He said he has no assets, and the move was justified by baseless claims.

Venezuela’s Vice President Tareck El Aissami published an open letter to the U.S. Treasury Department in the New York Times Tuesday, insisting that its decision to freeze his assets is “both absurd and pathetic” because it is based on no evidence, violates international law and shows ignorance of successful drug policy.

The Treasury Department, under the Trump administration, put El Aissami on a sanctions list last week for allegedly aiding drug traffickers and Middle Eastern terrorists, despite El Aissami claiming that Venezuelan crackdowns on drug trafficking during his tenure heading the security corps saw the country witness the “greatest progress in our history and in the western hemisphere” on transnational drug trafficking.

He cited figures, like the significant jump in the tons of drugs seized per year once he led the fight, versus when the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was still operating in Venezuela.

People stood in solidarity with Muslims and against Trump’s immigration policies.

In the continuing wave of protests against U.S. President Donald Trump, “I am Muslim too” rallies cropped up in cities throughout the weekend in solidarity with Muslims and against Trump’s immigration policies.

More than 1,000 people congregated in New York on Sunday in Times Square, and attendees heard from rabbis, imams, Sikh clergymember, a Buddhist, Episcopalian and Presbyterian reverends, a Mennonite, a Seventh Day Adventist minister, a Hindu, a Baptist pastor, local politicians and civil rights advocates.

Mayor Bill de Blasio spoke at the rally, saying “we have to dispel the stereotypes” and that the United States is “a country founded to protect all faiths and all beliefs.”

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons headlined the event and told the crowd that even while Muslims are being scapegoated, “diversity will prevail.”

A U.S. appeals court denied late Saturday night a request made by the U.S. Department of Justice to restore President Donald Trump’s executive order that bans citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries, as well as all refugees, from entering the United States.

Judge James Robart’s ruling has created a temporary, but uncertain, window where travelers from the seven countries — Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syria and Libya — may be able to enter the country.

Trump’s administration responded by saying Judge Robart’s decision poses a threat to the public and “second-guesses the president’s national security judgment about the quantum of risk posed by the admission of certain classes of (non-citizens) and the best means of minimizing that risk.”